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Re-iPhone phones to work after changing the date to 01/01/1970 possible by hand

Feb

16

2016

Surprise the users of devices Apple smart operating system iPhone OS iOS days prior to the existence of a gap in the fatal software operating system leads to the death of the machine completely.

He informed the group of users that their devices are fully stopped working after changing the date to January 1970 1, where the device is rebooted automatically and remained in the position to give up even after the restart it manually.

And publish a set of users a simple solution to the problem after the first solution was to take the phone iPhone to Apple, where users can device left on the status of take-off until the end of the entire shipment, which may require a long period of time, but the end of the battery charge and recharge the device it meets the purpose, the device will return to work as was the case in the past.

Users can also experienced accelerating the solution through a decoding device and remove the battery for 30 seconds and then return it will return the machine to work in full, where it can be for those who wish to complete this process manually to take advantage of some of the specialized in the field of electronic devices such as maintenance sites iFixit .

This kind of loopholes and produces problems in partial date and time in the nucleus of Unix Timestamp UNIX system, also used in the iPhone OS iOS system, a system that calculates the seconds that have elapsed since 1.1.1970 in order to represent a specific time in history, as it represents The number 0 on 01/01/1970 at 00:00.

For this reason, it turns the date field and the time value in the iPhone device to 0 when you change the date to 01/01/1970, which programmers forgot EOS system of writing lines of code to be treated and considered as an intrinsic value and not a loophole software lead to the suspension of logic programmatic work.

It is noteworthy that the value of the date and time used in the core of the Unix system has also led to the beginning of the year to date display incorrectly in the Facebook network on the eve of New Year’s Eve celebration, where messages of congratulations for some users on the expiration of the 46 year friendships within the site emerged.